By Henning Hoholt
CINDERELLA by Jean-Christoph Maillot will be shown 19-21 december 03 Cinderella will be shown at the Grimaldi Forum, that is the success production, whih was premiered april 1999, at the Salle Garnier at the Opera de Monte Carlo. Since then it has ebeen performed 80 times throughout the worl. Recently in New York, and after that at the Athen Festival.
CINDERELLA will also be touring in the future, so far to open the new Theatre of Tampico, Mexico, 4-5.octb.03. Followed by
Sevilla, 7.-10th january 04, and
Tokyo 17.-19.th july 04. Where also La Belle will be shown 22-25 July 03.
The Grimaldi Forum season continues with at Tripple Bill Evening, with three balletts by Jacopo Godani, Paul Lightfoot and a new ballet by Jean-Christophe Maillot, 25.-28/12.
D'une rive a l'autre, by Jean-Christophe Maillot, will be shown 31.12. 03 and 2-4. january 2004. at Grimaldi Forum. Please see the information about this performance, further down this page.
Les Ballets des Monte Carlo is an interesting company to work with for the dancers, and also a big job, as they are touring around the world quite a lot, which gives the dancers a fantastic posibility to see the world, but this is, of course also then difficult to have a "normal" family life. However The dance life is unfortunately a short life, and therefore it must be a challenge to work with such an international company for some years. This season as many as 12 new dancers from all over the world will attend the company. To see their names, go in to the web side of Les Ballets des Monte Carlo, where you also will find a lot of interesting news else about the company.
LES BALLETS DE MONTE-CARLO
Henning Høholt, hoeholthus@c2i.net
A new creation
D'une rive à l'autre
"From One Side to Another"
by Jean-Christophe Maillot,
a single evening choreography to a musical creation by the
composer Yan Maresz (in partnership with SO.GE.DA.),
with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Nicolas Brochot.
Chorégrahie: Jean-Christophe Maillot
Musique originale: Yan Maresz
Scénographie et lumières: Dominique Drillot
By Henning Høholt
From One Side to Another
This new production is the resolt of a deep complicity between the muscally inclined choreographer who creates and directs his movements o the letter of the notes, and a composer who, at the request of the choreographer, writs th score using 78 musicians of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, then recomposes it electronically, daily monitoring the evolution of the choreographic process.
On the path where he constantly meanders from one side to the other, Jean-Christophe Maillot takes a pause: whether classic or contemporary; narrative or abstract and he asks his public to evolve with him during each step of the way, to place enough confidence in him to provide the element of surprise.
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D´une rive à l´autre....
C´ est l´aboutissement d´une profonde complicité entre un chorégraphe féru de musique qui dessine et dirige les mouvements à la note près et un compositeur, qui à la demande du chorégraphe, écrit une partition pour les soixante dix huit musiciens de l´Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo ouis la recompose électroniquement, suivant au jour le jour l´évolution de l´écriture chorégraphique.
Comme à son habitude, la danse de Jean-Christophe Maillot racontera une histoire, mais cette fois sans Perrault ni Tchaïkovski; il n´y aura pas d´argument littéraire mais plutôt du chorégraphe à la direction des Ballets de Monte-Carlo.
Le chorégraphe marque une pause sur ce chemin qu´il arpente en permanence d´une rive à l´autre, du classique au contemporain, de la narration à l´abstraction, de l´écriture pour orchestra à l´écriture électronique. Un cheminemnt alternatif au cours duquel s´estimposée à chaque instant la réflexion de la légitimité du choix de la direction à suivre.
Dans sa relation avec les danseurs, c´est le moment pour Jean-Christophe Maillot d´appréhender la part de la dimension humaine dans la création d´une oeuvre chorégraphique: il révèlera pour cela, les coulisses de son ´ecriture, les répétitions à l´Atelier, les joies et les frustrations éventuelles.
Aujourd´hui, le chorégraphe demande à son public de suivre dans cette nouvelle étape et de lui faire confiance pour se laisser surprendre.
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In Salle des Princes, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco from 17 to 21 April 2003
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Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
International tours throughout the year 2003:
France from 19 January to 7 February
(Vichy, Brest, Reims, Niort, Nîmes, Sète, St. Etienne),
Annemasse on 22 and 23 March, Dijon on 21 et 22 May;
Spain: Palma de Mallorca on 15 February;
Germany: Münich on 25 and 26 March,
Friedrichshafen on 24 and 25 May;
United States: New York (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
from 29 April to 3 May;
Greece: Athens on 23 and 24 June 2003.
LES BALLETS DE MONTE-CARLO
Henning Høholt, hoeholthus@c2i.net
Vers un Pays Sage
28+29th august and 8-10-24-25 and 30th septb. 2003
The Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen.
